Virat Kohli

India|Top order Batter
Virat Kohli
INTL CAREER: 2008 - 2023
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Full Name

Virat Kohli

Born

November 05, 1988, Delhi

Age

34y 144d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium

Playing Role

Top order Batter

India has given to the world many a great cricketer but perhaps none as ambitious as Virat Kohli. To meet his ambition, Kohli employed the technical assiduousness of Sachin Tendulkar and fitness that was in the league of top athletes in the world, not just cricketers. As a result, Kohli became the most consistent all-format accumulator of his time, making jaw-dropping chases look easy, and finding, in his own words, the safest possible way to score runs. Plenty of them.

This ambition transferred seamlessly to his captaincy: he demanded more than ever of his bowlers especially the quick ones, often sacrificed a batsman for bowling depth, and led India to a long stay at No. 1 in Test rankings and a first-ever series win in Australia. He is well on his way to end up as India's most successful Test captain.

Barring one in Bangladesh, Kohli scored Test hundreds in and against every country he played. He absolutely smashed records for number of matches taken to reach eight, nine, ten and eleven thousand ODI runs. He was a genuine threat to Sachin Tendulkar's record of 49 ODI and 51 Test hundreds.

An Under-19 world Cup-winning captain, when he burst onto the scene, Kohli was a precocious talent with a cover drive to kill for. He was destined to be India's next big batsman as the Tendulkar era began to retire, but Kohli wanted to be more: a cricketer whom the opposition would be in awe of, a cricketer whose presence would raise the intensity of the contest. He lived every ball, competed each moment, and made sure he had the fitness and strength to do so. He was widely credited for changing the fitness culture in Indian cricket, introducing endurance tests as a criterion for selection.

Kohli was quite simply India's most powerful captain. Centre of every marketing campaign for Indian cricket, he also happened to lead at a time when the BCCI was run by interim administrators who knew better than to draw the ire of Indian cricket's biggest star. There was never any cause to doubt his intent: to do things that will win matches for India, which they did plenty under him.

Career Averages
Batting & Fielding
FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Test108183118416254*48.931521155.322828941241090
ODI274265401289818357.321377693.62466512111381410
T20I115107314008122*52.732905137.96137356117500
FC1402311810665254*50.071911455.7935361254391400
List A308298431434018356.231531293.65507313751621590
T203603436611326122*40.888515133.0168510043551570
Bowling
FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Test10811175840---2.88-000
ODI2744864166541/151/15166.256.22160.2000
T20I1151315220441/131/1351.008.0538.0000
FC1402564333831/192/42112.663.15214.3000
List A3085570572641/151/15181.506.17176.2000
T203604546066782/252/2583.378.7057.5000
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Glenn Maxwell and Virat Kohli have a chat in the RCB nets
Virat Kohli's slow but steady half-century kept India's chase on track
Virat Kohli was up and running from the get-go
Virat Kohli takes a leap as the Indian players walk out to the field
The Indian team walks back after losing the game
Virat Kohli peeks into Steven Smith's bat grip